Evolution and adaptation (1903)
Author: Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945
Subject: Evolution (Biology); Adaptation (Biology)
Publisher: New York, London, The Macmillan Company
Language: English
Call number: QH366 .M84
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: Cornell University Library
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Collection: cornell; biodiversity; americana
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The problem of adaptation.--The theory of evolution.--Darwin's theories of artificial and of natural selection.--Darwin's theory of sexual selection.--The inheritance of acquired characters.--Continuous and discontinuous variation and heredity.--Evolution as the result of external and internal factors.--The origin of the different kinds of adaptations.--Tropisms and instincts as adaptations.--Sex as an adaptation.--Summary and general conclusions
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| Filesxml: | Wed Mar 17 10:46:59 UTC 2010 |